Ben Scobie

I’ve had a Lenovo T430 for many years and for most of those years it’s been sat gathering dust. Until I remember I have it, re-install some flavour of Linux on it and then promptly forget all about it again.
Since working from home and recently moving house I’ve been less inclined to stay in my office after work to tinker with various projects, I just feel a bit yucky. Instead I’ve picked ol’ dusty back up again and have started using it on the sofa whilst...

I recently started using Cloudflare proxying for all of the services I host under *.benscobie.com to reduce the attack surface on the origin server. In order for this to work effectively we need to ensure we aren’t leaking the origin server’s IP address...

I found myself hitting the following exception whilst playing around with AWS Lambda and LocalStack when invoking a Lambda function from another Lambda function:
Lambdas in LocalStack run within Docker so the AWS endpoint should to be set to the LocalStack container which wasn’t the case for me. As the LocalStack edge port is typically exposed you can just target the docker host by using host.docker.internal...

After recently getting to grips with Jenkins I wanted to expand into deployment automation as that was the only stage missing from my workflow. At my current place of work, we use Octopus Deploy for all of our in-house application deployments and it...